The last couple of days have been better than Christmas for a few of us. Microsoft has been releasing many updates to its developer tools and sdk to go with the recent release of Visual Studio 2008. Below I have listed the updates that have been released with download links. Enjoy!

Yesterday Microsoft complimented the release of Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1 for both .NET 2.0 and 3.0. Information and download links are provided below.

If you have an MSDN subscriber account, you can download go Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 right now.

Microsoft has released updated documents detailing the language specifications for C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 (C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 language specifications). These documents should take you quite some time to Enjoy!

The “Ace” team inside of Microsoft has kindly released a plug-in for Visual Studio called XSSDetect. XSSDetect is a “static code analysis plug-in that will identify Cross-Site Scripting security flaws in any managed Web Application” (Microsoft).